Efficiency is the Enemy by FS Blog (8min) DeMarco defines slack as “the degree of freedom required to effect change. Slack is the natural enemy of efficiency and efficiency is the natural enemy of slack.” This article gives us insights to notice what we do for the better. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
The Brutal Truth About Reading: If You Don’t Take Notes Right, You’ll Forget Nearly Everythingby Michael Simmons (24min) The benefits of public note-taking are (1) Future Value for self and other people. Leaving notes with context helps you remember the info in the future. You and other people can also search and connect the dots later and (2) Deeper Understanding. Knowing that your notes could be viewed by others works as a forcing function to let you process the information deeply. Someone's trash is someone else's treasure. The future is learning in public ;) See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
The Small Steps of Giant Leaps by FS Blog (3min) The position you find yourself in today is the accumulation of the small choices that you’ve been making for years. For your choices to compound, you need to be consistent. Intensity will only carry you in the short term but if you want compounding results you need consistency. In the absence of immediate rewards, we can keep up the intensity for a while but most of us become intermittent. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Lifelong Learning by FS Blog (5min) People need to learn continuously. Even if your daily learning is small, it is significant when you continuously learn throughout your life. Resolving to learning continuously in your entire life is remarkably powerful and makes a big difference in the long run. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Build Personal Moats by Erik Torenberg (5mins) ”A personal moat is a set of unique and accumulating competitive advantages in the context of your career.” You should keep in mind some tips and mindsets to build your personal moat such as what’s easy for you but hard for others. There is a lot of advice for a career path, but this is one of the best that leverages your career as far as I know. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge by FS Blog (16min) “First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. It’s one of the best ways to learn to think for yourself, unlock your creative potential, and move from linear to non-linear results.” Though there are many articles by FS, this is one of the most favorite articles. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
How to be useless by Helen De Cruz & Pauline Lee (27min) Zhuangzi argued that we can reclaim our lives, and be happier and more fulfilled if we become more useless. It is fine for you to simply be. We need to reject the idea of use altogether. Societies based on usefulness do not make us happier or more in harmony with nature. You are not a mere tool in the building of a larger project, or a vessel in a grand ritual; you are a glorious part of the greater Universe, and when you become one with the Dao – you become your true self. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
The Most Powerful Force You Can Harness: Slow, Incremental, Constant Progress by Thomas Waschenfelder (4min) The secret to success is consistency, not intensity. The small things that you do consistently matter more than the large things you do sporadically. Consistency allows you to capture the awesome power of compounding - where small gains compound on each other to create massive change over time. Put out what it is you want to get back from the world. Over the long term, you’ll get what you deserve. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
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How Note Taking Can Help You Become an Expert by Cedric Chin (22min) In ill-structured (messy) domains, concept instantiation is highly variable. Thus, having a system to collect and connect (backlink) fragments of cases helps to accelerate expertise and build an adaptive worldview. Pick a note-taking app with backlinking capabilities. Start copying cases into your note-taking app, perhaps from articles, PDFs, books, or blog posts. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
what they don’t teach at university, but should by Harold Jarche (2min) It’s hard to learn things alone and people can accelerate learning by studying with mentors, fellow seekers, or knowledge catalysts. We’re living in a network society, so we can find these people and we should do it. These skills are portable and help you continue and accelerate your learning. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
How to Read a Book: The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler by FS Blog (5min) There is a difference between reading for understanding and reading for information. If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t given much thought to how you read. And how you read makes a massive difference to knowledge accumulation. In this article, the author introduces the four levels of reading to improve our reading skills. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books by Anne-Laure Le Cunff (4mins) Do you know what the word “Tsundoku(積ん読)” is? It’s a Japanese word describing the habit of acquiring books but letting them pile up without reading them. People tend to feel guilty when buying books but don’t read them. But the concept of the antilibrary has wholly changed the author's mindset when it comes to unread books. In this article, the author introduces the benefit of antilibrary. See: Glasp Community Highlights 👀 Share: Tweet Your Progress
